TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

A short note on "Meet the Press"

By TigerHawk at 3/15/2009 10:55:00 AM

I've said it before and I'll say it again, David Gregory is running away the best host "Meet the Press" has ever had. This morning, Gregory absolutely pounded Christina Romer, the chairman of Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors. Amazingly fair and balanced for the Olbermann network.

Anyway, "Press" is watchable for the first time in many years thanks to Gregory's willingness to ask partisans of both sides hard questions and follow up, something the otherwise delightful Tim Russert did not do so well.

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12 Comments:

By PD Quig, at Sun Mar 15, 11:13:00 AM:

Agree. I was blown away last weekend when he had Newt on. I was just passing through on the way to the Weather Channel and dwelled a few moments, expecting to the disgusted. I was pleasantly surprised by the equanimity. Maybe I'll watch again today?

By Anonymous, at Sun Mar 15, 01:16:00 PM:

I saw it and agree. He was a bulldog on the "fundamentally sound" snippet, not letting her off the hook.

"Wasn't john McCain right last September?"

Does president Obama now agree with McCain?"

etc

By Anonymous, at Sun Mar 15, 02:02:00 PM:

Very good, I am very surprised. Wait until the Obama goons and the "free speech" lefties crunch him.

By Neil Sinhababu, at Sun Mar 15, 03:31:00 PM:

It's still the Scarborough network.

By Anonymous, at Sun Mar 15, 03:43:00 PM:

Agreed, although you didn't mention the best part, TH. After pounding Ms. Rommer, Gregory went on to publicly upbraid Eric Cantor over the fact that he voted YES on more than 46,000 Bush-era earmarks--gulp--which, to Cantor's credit, he fessed up to while claiming he's now found "religion" and is earmark free.

Gregory also asked him why the Republicans had yet to produce their own alternative to Obama's bank bailout. His response: "The Republicans will have a plan." Oops. He then corrected himself to say the Republicans did have a plan but the media didn't cover it. Heh. No time like the present, Eric. Besides, isn't that what Faux News is for? I hear Rush has a microphone, too. LOL

BTW, Meet the Press is a product of NBC network, not MSNBC, it's red-headed step-child.

By TigerHawk, at Sun Mar 15, 03:58:00 PM:

Tress, hammering Cantor was a given. Russert would have done the same. It is the evenhandedness that sets Gregory apart.

By Anonymous, at Sun Mar 15, 04:57:00 PM:

I'm glad to hear that he's so evenhanded. But why were these journalists so biased during the campaign?

By Steve M. Galbraith, at Sun Mar 15, 05:18:00 PM:

It's still the Scarborough network

Yep, Matthews, Olbermann and Maddow simply can't say anything without Scarborough first signing off on it.

Griffin and Capus think they run the place but really it's Tailgunner Joe.

Lordy....

By SR, at Sun Mar 15, 07:07:00 PM:

Christina Romer looks like somebody's grandmother.
My grandmother never would have said. "Spend yourself into oblivion."

By Anonymous, at Mon Mar 16, 09:33:00 AM:

Tess: The head of the Republican party already offered his proposal in the Wall Street Journal. It's here:
http://tiny.cc/aLkPY

By Anonymous, at Mon Mar 16, 10:25:00 AM:

So Anon at 9:33 am, does that mean you agree with Rahm that Russ Limbo is indeed the
head of the Republican party?

Hoo boy:)

By Anonymous, at Tue Mar 17, 01:22:00 AM:

You mean BEAT THE LIBERAL PRESS you cant trust them so beat em